Southern Cross Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH IJ KLLFK MNDODO POFQR STMUV WX| I wanted you nameless Woman of the South | A |
| No wraith but utterly as still more alone | B |
| The Southern Cross takes night | C |
| And lifts her girdles from her one by one | D |
| High cool | E |
| wide from the slowly smoldering fire | F |
| Of lower heavens | G |
| vaporous scars | H |
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| Eve Magdalene | I |
| or Mary you | J |
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| Whatever call falls vainly on the wave | K |
| O simian Venus homeless Eve | L |
| Unwedded stumbling gardenless to grieve | L |
| Windswept guitars on lonely decks forever | F |
| Finally to answer all within one grave | K |
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| And this long wake of phosphor | M |
| iridescent | N |
| Furrow of all our travel trailed derision | D |
| Eyes crumble at its kiss Its long drawn spell | O |
| Incites a yell Slid on that backward vision | D |
| The mind is churned to spittle whispering hell | O |
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| I wanted you The embers of the Cross | P |
| Climbed by aslant and huddling aromatically | O |
| It is blood to remember it is fire | F |
| To stammer back It is | Q |
| God your namelessness And the wash | R |
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| All night the water combed you with black | S |
| Insolence You crept out simmering accomplished | T |
| Water rattled that stinging coil your | M |
| Rehearsed hair docile alas from many arms | U |
| Yes Eve wraith of my unloved seed | V |
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| The Cross a phantom buckled dropped below the dawn | W |
| Light drowned the lithic trillions of your spawn | X |
Harold Hart Crane
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